Born 1956 in Coventry, West Midlands, UK
Lives and works in Cambridge, UK
Personal Statement:
After a lifetime working in science and technology, including working with some of the most respected scientists on the planet, I have now taken the time to pursue my interest in the arts and in painting in particular.
My work centres around a fascination with what makes a place seem unique, what defines it and how art can be used to capture this essence of place and how what we think of as a place relates to the space around it. Where are the boundaries? How does the surrounding landscape help to define the feelings that one has about a particular location? How closely can we ‘zoom in’ before the notion of place becomes meaningless, and are there any physical attributes that exist outside the mental picture that we all create when we think of a place?
This notion of place not only encompasses the spatial elements that define location but must also include a recognition of the dimension of time. The very material that builds a place is constantly changing at rates that vary between the moment of observation and the geological time of the earth itself. The intersection point of these time frames becomes a memory that builds with others to create what we think of as a place.
My paintings are therefore a representation of those elements that I feel best represent the feelings and memories that go to create my own experience of being in a place.
Upcoming exhibition:
17 – 23/5/2023 – SHINGLE joint exhibition of painting and photography with Linda Mayoux
Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
Previous exhibitions:
2012 – 2017: Annual Art Exhibitions, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
2010: Exhibition in support of Wintercomfort for the Homeless, Six Bells, Cambridge
Projects:
2008 – 2020: Founded and ran Cambridge Life Artists Group (CLAG) to provide monthly life drawing sessions for local artists in and around Cambridge.
Education:
2011 – present BA (Hons) Painting, The Open College of the Arts
2008 – 2011 BA (Hons) Humanities and Art History, The Open University
1976 – 1979 BSc. (Hons) Electronic Engineering, The City University, London
Short courses:
2022 Joan Eardley: Land Sea and People, St Ives School of Painting.
2021 Abstracting Zennor in Autumn, St Ives School of Painting.
2021 The Thick and the Thin of it: Painting the Ocean, St Ives School of Painting.
2021 Simply Oils, Norfolk Painting School
2020 Sketch into Painting, St Ives School of Painting. (online)
2019 Artist’s Retreat Week, St Ives School of Painting.
2019 Contemporary Landscape, St Ives School of Painting.
2019 Abstracting the Figure in Paint, St Ives School of Painting.